Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s–1930s.

Jun Lei's monograph seeks to address this with a focus on male intellectual discourse on masculinity from the 1890s to the 1930s, a period when stereotypes of the effeminate Chinese man developed into a source of consternation for many. Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s-1930s ISBN 9789888528745 That the nation-building project of the late Qing and early Republican era was distinctly male-centred is a fact often acknowledged, but the implications of this fact in terms of concepts of masculinity are rarely explored. [Extracted from the article]